Wikidata:Status updates/2020 10 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-10-19.

Discussions

• Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates

Events

• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
• Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
• WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF) (talk)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
• Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
• Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
• Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
• Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
• Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: ritual object
  • External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
  • External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole
• Query examples:
  • Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
  • Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
  • UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
  • Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
  • Movie genre trends (Source)
  • Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
  • List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
  • Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
  • The most commonly depicted locations (Source)

Development

• Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
• So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
• Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
• Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!